Magnoon (adj) (Aus/NZ)
mag-noon
Mad or eccentric.
Late 19th century from Egyptian Arabic majnūn ‘possessed’, a word encountered by British troops during the Siege of Khartoum and subsequently widely used by Australian troops during the First World War.
Example sentences
“He’s gone a little magnoon with age.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
